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TEXT TO SPEECH www.loquendo.com Loquendo TTS software brings you truly natural sounding voices able to read any kind of dynamic data and prompts in your server-based, multimedia, embedded and multimodal voice applications. Loquendo is the very first company to bring expressive synthetic speech to the market: new, high-quality voices guarantee Loquendo’s market leadership in quality, efficiency and portability as well as in pronunciation accuracy, natural timbre and intonation. Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line guarantee- ing the same wide range of high-quality voices and languages, and the same core engine for all these environments. Loquendo TTS The Benefits to You… Give your users the best available TTS technology for IVR (banking, government…), live news, accessing business documents, e-learning, entertainment, automotive telematics, email reading and any embedded application - there are no limits! Loquendo’s truly lifelike TTS means there’s no need for costly, time- consuming pre-recording, and it enables the rapid deployment of vocal services that customers will love using. Loquendo’s voices are expressive, clear, natural and fluent: they have been enriched with a repertoire of “expressive cues” that allow for highly emotional pronunciation. Two ways for creating your own audio files are available: Loquendo TTS Director • – a complete development environment for creating your own voice prompts, tuning them and saving customizations. Loquendo TTS Voice Experience • – designed in a games console style, this is a highly interactive and user friendly environment in which voice parameters can be easily and rapidly adjusted. With all this at your disposal, you can get Loquendo TTS voices talk- ing just the way you want them to! A World of Languages & Voices… Loquendo gives its customers expanded reach in today’s global marketplace. Loquendo TTS is a rapidly growing family of expressive voices and personas from around the world. Loquendo’s research and highly efficient methods of development enable the rapid release of new, high-quality voices and languages, as well as customized voices to suit your corporate profile. To discover more about Loquendo’s latest TTS successes, visit our interactive TTS Demos at: www.loquendo.com. Loquendo TTS Director Loquendo TTS Director is a complete Java environment (also available in client-server configuration) for creating your own voice prompts. It gives developers complete control over their voice applications so they can really enhance the user experience. Text is written in the edit box and interactively refined through a “listen & edit” procedure, which allows “fine-tuning” for even better TTS performance. Its many features include: A repertoire of “ • expressive cues” – commonly used phrases, such as “How are you?” or “You’ve got to be kidding!” and paralinguistic events such as yawning, coughing and laughing - enable highly expressive pronunciation, creat- ing extremely natural sounding speech. “ • Plug-in lexicons” – make possible the reading of specific types of text (e.g. SMS abbreviations, emails). Lexicons Manager • – is the tool to create and edit lexicons. Mixed Language Capabilities • – allows the reading of multilingual texts: it has a built-in language guesser that automatically identifies the language of any text so that, through phonetic mapping, any of Loquendo’s voices can pronounce any foreign word. Audio Mixer • – gives you complete control over all audio sources (for music or other sounds there is a choice of sampling rates and coding): audio files can be mixed, looped, faded in and out, or synchronized with synthetic speech. Voice Creator – • gives you the possibility to modify an existing voice and save it as a new one. User-Driven Unit Selection Tool – • enables the user to perform an alternative acoustic unit selection from the speech database - so giving you the maximum flexibility for the smoothest pronunciation and intonation possible. Reading Style • – allows prompt designers to activate/deactivate predefined reading styles.
